December 5 — 6 — Hyderabad, India

Nathan Subramanian

Globalstep

Nathan Subramanian

Globalstep

Liz Mercuri

Technical Evangelist

Unity Technologies

Liz Mercuri

Technical Evangelist, Unity Technologies

Liz Mercuri is a Technical Evangelist at Unity Technologies. Regularly engaging with the game development community, Liz has the fortunate opportunity to encourage and empower the next generation of game development talent. Whether she is mentoring at student game jams, delivering talks and demos on the latest Unity features or getting involved in local initiatives to promote computer games as a viable career option, she realizes the importance of empowering developers, instilling confidence and promoting diversity in the game development community.

Harshavardhana Kikkeri

CEO

Kaaya Tech Inc

Harshavardhana Kikkeri

CEO, Kaaya Tech Inc

Harsha Kikkeri is the CEO of Kaaya Tech Inc where he is building HoloSuit – An AI enabled full body analytics platform which acts as a virtual trainer for your body. HoloSuit recently won Elevate 2018 Startup award of upto Rs 50 lakhs from Govt of Karnataka and Forbes, NY is calling HoloSuit game-changing tech which will enable a whole new generation of XR applications and take immersive reality to the next level through haptic feedback.SlashGear is calling it the "Ready Player One Suit" which is a sci-fi movie suit by Steven Spielberg. He has over 18 years experience working on IoT, augmented/virtual reality, aerial and ground robots with expertise in drones, sensor fusion, and machine learning. He did pioneering research at Microsoft Robotics in USA building robots which could learn by demonstration. He has won numerous leadership awards including Gold Star from Microsoft, Excellence Award from Infosys, Bharat PetroleumScholarship and has won numerous chess tournaments. He has Masters in Electrical Engineering from Syracuse University, NY and BE Electronics from SJCE, Mysore, India. He holds 35+ international patents from the US, Europe, China, Japan, and other countries

Madhur Gupta

Field Engineer

Unity Technologies

Madhur Gupta

Field Engineer, Unity Technologies

Rishi Khemka

CEO

MindBox

Rishi Khemka

CEO, MindBox

Rishi belongs to a business family and quite naturally began his career at Aditya Infotech, a family-owned venture. He started a software division specializing in animation, gaming, broadcast, VFX and media domains. He later established ARK Infosolutions in 2012, to become one of the leaders in Value-Added Software & Solutions Distribution in India.With his passion for technology and his belief in the need to use it effectively in education, Rishi launched MindBox, a holistic creative education company. In his current role as Chief Enjoyment Officer and Director of ARK Infosolutions/ MindBox, Rishi has spear-headed interesting initiatives like starting India’s first design championship for students, which encourages them to think out of the box and showcase their talent. He also initiated ‘GameJam Titans’, a game development competition in collaboration with NASSCOM Gaming Forum.Rishi was ranked among Top 100 Most Important Media & Entertainment People in India by Digital Media Magazine 2014. This year Rethink India has felicitated him as the eduTech Leader of India in 2017.Rishi is a commerce graduate with an MBA (Finance) and has specialised in Strategic Finance from Chartered Institute of Management Accountants (CIMA) – London.When not busy with work, Rishi loves to spend time with family, watching movies & sports and listening to music. Rishi also invests a lot of time on personal development and learning and is an avid reader.

Farheen Bandeali

Senior Business Development Manager- Unity Ads

Unity Technologies

Farheen Bandeali

Senior Business Development Manager- Unity Ads, Unity Technologies

Farheen currently works with Unity Technologies as a Senior Business Development Manager and works on building and growing India business for UnityAds.

Unity Technologies boasts a thriving community of millions of developers including large publishers, indie studios, students and hobbyists. Unity offers the simplest way to drive revenue across your entire player base with In-App Purchases and Ads for mobile games. UnityAds is a preferred monetization partner for mobile game companies around the world. Game developers rely on us to monetize their games and acquire high-quality users through video ads.

She has over 8 years of experience and knowledge of digital advertising and gaming. Prior to joining Unity, she was the Director Business Development of APAC for Matomy Media Group to setup the APAC business for Mobfox. She has also worked with advertising companies like Vserv Digital and gaming companies like Reliance Digital Entertainment and Nazara Games.

Venkatesh Bhaskar

Senior Consultant

Deloitte

Venkatesh Bhaskar

Senior Consultant, Deloitte

Venkat is a technical lead for Unity and ARKit development in Digital Reality. He leads the effort to develop CARMA application on iPhone and played the role of a Game Producer to get the right output.

Jean Moreno

Freelancer

Jean Moreno

Freelancer

Jean Moreno is a self-taught developer and technical artist working as a freelancer in the video games industry. He worked as shading and lighting tools lead on Sonder, an animated short-film made with Unity.

Sharatchandra

Field Engineer- Industrial

Unity Technologies

Sharatchandra

Field Engineer- Industrial, Unity Technologies

A hardcore game programmer trying to bring the best of gaming into the world of science. I've been gaming since the Atari era. Being part of the industry for a while, I figured out why not help other industries through gaming technologies.

Pedro Almeida

VP- Strategy and Monetization

Aptoide

Pedro Almeida

VP- Strategy and Monetization, Aptoide

Pedro Almeida manages developer relations at BDS, including the relationships with NetEase, IGG, GTArcade, Ubisoft, among others. He also responsible for strategic efforts, including blockchain related topics.

Prior to working with BDS, he launched (and failed to succeed) an android app and worked during 7 years at McKinsey & Co. Pedro is a soccer game lover

Farhez Rayani

CG Supervisor & Lighting DP

Farhez Rayani

CG Supervisor & Lighting DP

Farhez Rayani is a photographer based in San Francisco and is available internationally.

He is also a Lighting Technical Director at Pixar Animation Studios.

Abilash Ashok

Solution Architect - AR/VR

Cyient

Abilash Ashok

Solution Architect - AR/VR, Cyient

A Passionate Technology Evangelist with rich 10+ years' in IT Industry, well-versed with a multitude of technology from Desktop to Web to Mobile to Extended Realities (XR). He works as Solution Architect (AR/VR) at Cyient, Hyderabad and is responsible for designing premium and compelling Mixed Reality experiences using Microsoft HoloLens and various other devices, for enterprise and engineering verticals.

Prior to working in Cyient, we were working with IdentityMine – an Elite Partner of Microsoft where he got introduced to Microsoft HoloLens at an early stage which made him one of the early adopter and pioneer in XR space.

He's a technology speaker (http://cametoofar.com/events/) who travels across India to delivers keynotes and workshops on Mixed Reality, Vuforia, and Unity. He has been recognized for his contributions in AR/VR/MR and is featured twice (https://www.manoramaonline.com/education/campus-updates/2017/03/27/augmented-reality-virtual-reality-mixed-reality.html, https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:6410019219404054528) in one of leading daily newspaper – Malayala Manorama in Kerala (his hometown).

He's also co-organizer of technology community group – K-MUG (http://k-mug.net/team) where he hosts technology events every month.

He writes about "A Nerd's Technology Obsession" in his blog – CameTooFar (http://cametoofar.com/) and tweets at https://twitter.com/abhilashca.

Prahlad Rao

Senior Manager

Accenture

Prahlad Rao

Senior Manager, Accenture

Prahlad Rao leads XR capability for Accenture in India and AAPAC region. Accenture looks at XR as a major growth factor in coming years and has been investing a lot in this space by setting up specialised XR studios across the globe and delivering innovative solution in XR space. Prahlad has been with Accenture for over 4 years now and as a XR lead he is building one the largest XR team in Accenture across the globe and is focused on delivery Enterprise solutions along with integrated services with Accenture Technology and Digital expertise.Prahlad started his career with media industry where he worked with BBC India and Reuters before plunging into Information technology world.

Chandan Singh

Head - Virtual Reality

SmartVizX

Chandan Singh

Head - Virtual Reality, SmartVizX

Chandan is a technical artist for video game engines and of late, a UX/UI designer working at SmartVizX on Trezi. He has over a decade of experience dealing with multiple game development engines and platforms. He started his career by modding games and making maps for Unreal Tournament and Counter Strike. Since then, he's been involved in the development of multiple big and small AAA, console and PC games. These days he's working on VR/AR and exploring the possibilities of their application in multiple industries.

Rus Scammell

Technical Product Manager

Unity Technologies

Rus Scammell

Technical Product Manager, Unity Technologies

Rus Scammell is Product Manager of 2D at Unity Technologies. Previously he was an Evangelist at Unity and an indie game developer. As a games technology generalist, he takes a holistic approach to game development. He loves to build 2D and 3D art has a passion for interactive design and is always looking for better code architecture and production methods. He has been making games and game tools for more than 15 years.

Huzaifa Arab

Co-founder and Creative Director

Hypernova Interactive

Huzaifa Arab

Co-founder and Creative Director, Hypernova Interactive

Huzaifa is Creative Director at Hypernova Interactive, a studio focused on crafting mobile first e-sports experiences. Previously, he was Principal Game Designer at Hike where he developed mobile games for the Indian market. Over the last 15 years, he has been actively developing his game design and programming skills as has transitioned from modding games as a hobbyist to delivering end-to-end solutions as a professional. He holds a Master’s Degree in video game design and production management from DSK Supinfogame.

Anirban Chakravorty

Develop equipment simulators to train workers in heavy engineerings such as iron and steel

Studied at NIT Warangal, Ran small business ventures in college

Chris Crowell

Chris Crowell

Chris 'Wombat' Crowell is a Game Designer and Creative Director with 20+ years’ experience creating a wide range of critically acclaimed games. He has worked with globally known brands such as NASCAR, Tiger Woods, Sim City, The Sims, Open Season, Indiana Jones, and Kung Fu Panda. He co-founded the online division at Behavior Interactive, developing the kids MMO Monkey Quest in partnership with Nickelodeon. As Creative Director at Tribal Nova he helped launch the Woozworld startup, a virtual world for tweens. At Ganz Studios (home of WebKinz) he directed the creation of the Tail Towns MMO and social game for Facebook. In recent years, Chris has shifted his focus toward working with educators such as UNESCO MGIEP to create engaging and effective Game Based Learning and Gamified Digital Education experiences. Chris has served on the Board of Directors for the International Game Developers Association, and was a founder of their Positive Impact Games SIG.

Amarnath Murugan

Student Researcher

Next Tech Lab

Amarnath Murugan

Student Researcher, Next Tech Lab

Amarnath is currently a student researcher and team lead of the HCI research group within Next Tech Lab, a multidisciplinary student run research lab based out of SRM Institute of Science and technology. He’s been using unity for XR development over two years and has collaborated with multiple pioneering startups and researchers in the field. Which helped him become one of the first Unity student ambassadors in India and the Vice-chair of his local SIGCHI chapter.

He has led and played a crucial role in teams that have been to multiple national level hackathons, where his XR based solutions went up against that of experienced professionals and startups. His team’s AR based application for enhancing Museum experience helped them bag the first place at Smart India Hackathon 2017, the then world’s biggest hackathon.

He recently presented a paper on “A multi user mixed reality platform for medical education” at an International conference on ICT’s role in Higher Education and Research(ICRI-2018), and was responsible for building the technical backend that will be shown in this talk.

Jayesh Pillai

Assistant Professor

IDC School of Design

Jayesh Pillai

Assistant Professor, IDC School of Design

Jayesh Pillai obtained his PhD in the field of Virtual Reality from Arts et Métiers ParisTech, France. He has a master's degree in Design (M.Des -Visual Communication) from Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur and bachelor's degree in architecture (B.Arch) from Kerala University, India.

Has has previously worked as a graphic designer at Costford, Trivandrum. His independent short films 'Beyond' and 'Gulzar' have been screened at the Cannes Film Festival's Short Film Corner in 2011 and 2016 respectively.

He is presently Assistant Professor at IDC School of Design, IIT Bombay, India. His research revolves around the domains of Virtual Reality, Film and Visual Communication.

Cinévoqué is one of the concepts that he has been exploring for last few years.

Anurag Rana

CEO & Founder

Threye Interactive Pvt Ltd

Anurag Rana

CEO & Founder, Threye Interactive Pvt Ltd

Anurag Rana is an entrepreneur with a passion for Aerospace and Defense. He is an alum of Rashtriya Indian Military College (where he studied as a cadet and topped National Defense College entrance) and IIT Kharagpur (where he studied mechanical, aerospace and manufacturing engineering), and graduated with a gold medal as best outgoing student. He worked in ITC Ltd (India's largest FMCG company and highest weighted stock in market index) across manufacturing shop floor, product development, and worked on branding of India's No. 1 Brand – Goldflake. He acquired his private pilot license in 2012, and short after started his own company, bootstrapping it 16x over next 6 years.

Vijay Sinha

Game Designer

Holy Cow Productions

Vijay Sinha

Game Designer, Holy Cow Productions

A game designer by profession, Vijay Sinha has been working in the games industry for the last 10 years. Prior to freelancing, he has worked 4 years with Hike Games on games such as Shiva: The Time Bender, Dadi vs Jellies (GOTY Winner at NASSCOM Game Developer Conference in 2014), and its sequel Dadi vs Monsters.

Currently, Vijay has been working with Holy Cow Productions for the past year on several on-going projects. In his part-time, he also likes to cosplay from his favorite video games.

Andrew Bowell

Vice President- Product

Unity Technologies

Andrew Bowell

Vice President- Product, Unity Technologies

Andrew heads up Product for Unity R&D. Together with the incredible engineers in R&D and Unity’s awesome user base, Andrew’s team helps to set the direction for Unity’s technology from Features to Platforms, Graphics to Core all connected to Unity’s ever more powerful Developer Services. Andrew graduated from a youth of C64 and x86 fiddling and stepped foot for real into the games industry in 2000. At Havok Andrew was part of the team that got Havok Physics off the ground going on to power games like Skyrim, Halo, Assassin’s Creed and Uncharted.

Mark Schoennagel

Evangelist

Unity Technologies

Mark Schoennagel

Evangelist, Unity Technologies

Mark Schoennagel is a Unity Evangelist with a strong technical background in 3D Animation for both film and video games. For nearly 20 years he was the lead evangelist for Softimage 3D, enjoying a front-row seat during the renaissance of the 3D industry. From witnessing the humble beginnings of the first ray-traced animations all the way through to today’s blockbuster AAA game titles, he’s seen it all. When not pushing the limits of 3D, Mark enjoys Formula 1, photography and VR… which of course is just more 3D.

Jawahar Palaniyandi

Director- Sustained Engineering

Unity Technologies

Jawahar Palaniyandi

Director- Sustained Engineering, Unity Technologies

Kamal

Tech Mahindra

Kamal

Tech Mahindra

Carl Callewaert

Director- Global Evangelism

Unity Technologies

Carl Callewaert

Director- Global Evangelism, Unity Technologies

Carl Callewaert finds his passion in supporting and teaching developers around the world. His background in architecture and virtual reality led him to join the games industry and create AR and VR experiences for several serious game companies. His enthusiasm for 3D, VR/AR and gaming builds upon 10 years of production and evangelism experience. Prior to Unity, Carl worked for The Canadian Space Agency, Measurand, Autodesk Education and on a number of AAA and indie games.

Aniruddha Hardikar

Creative Director

Aphaat Entertainment

Aniruddha Hardikar

Creative Director, Aphaat Entertainment

I am a Game Developer and CG Generalist from Pune, India. After being a freelancer for over 15 years, providing digital art and animation services in various industries, I now lead a small Game Development/Animation studio in Pune.

Arvind Neelakantan

Evaneglist

Unity Technologies

Arvind Neelakantan

Evaneglist, Unity Technologies

Arvind Neelakantan is a game engineer with over 10 years of experience. He started as a game developer working for uWink Inc, a company founded by industry legend Nolan Bushnell. He moved on to a senior software engineer role at Nickelodeon Games in Glendale, California where he developed on PC, mobile and web based MMOs on Unity. He strongly believes in the potential for Indian studios to produce quality content and hence in 2014 he shifted to his home country where he lead the engineering team for Disney India. While at Disney, he worked on mobile games, VR/AR experiences and on experimental technologies. He now works as an Unity evangelist to encourage Indian developers and to enable their success.

Dr. Bharathy CSS

Founder

FusionVR

Dr. Bharathy CSS

Founder, FusionVR

• Nearly 2 decades of professional Industry experience in Consultancy, Teaching, Training, Research & Product Development (yr 1998-2006 in Singapore, yr 2007-till now in India)• Adobe Certified Video Specialist and the First Certified Instructor of South East Asia (yr 2004)• Doctorate in Stereoscopic 3D• Continuous R&D in the area of indigenous & cost-effective Stereo 3D Imaging, VR/AR, Interactive-Holography, Mocap Systems and Industrial Simulations.• One of his major initiatives ImmeX-Zone was the first ever commercially launched real immersive VR product in India and Singapore during Yr 2014. He has also developed an indigenous VR-HMD and a Dynamic Haptic and effects integrated Simulation chair for Experiencing VR in Yr2014• Contributing as a VR consultant for Defense Research and Development Organization, Govt of India and executed several projects since Yr2012• Contributed as a panellist in CXO level Panel discussions on VR/AR & Industry4.0 in Major events in India & Abroad• Contributed Research articles for Science Magazines and Awarded as “Distinguished Scientist” @International conference Systemics, Cybernetics and Informatics held at Hydrabad- yr 2012• Started Aim Multimedia -India’s first & only training institute authorized by Adobe, Autodesk, Corel & Wacom (yr 2007)• Serving as a elected Fellow of : Indian Institute of Safety and Environment Indian Institution of Production Engineers Foundation for Advanced Education and Research Engineering Design and Analysis Forum

Nikhil Chandran

CEO

TILTLABS

Nikhil Chandran

CEO, TILTLABS

Over 10 years of experience in developing software and leading projects encompassing emerging technologies in web, mobile, analytics and cloud domains. A passion for all things Tech, drove him to be an early adopter of Virtual and Augmented Reality, Block Chain, AI and IOT technologies, making him a thought leader and evangelist helping academic and businesses to adopt these technologies faster, smoother and cost-effectively. Nikhil founded TILTLABS with a passion to provide products and solutions with emerging technologies.

Sujay HG

Cofounder and CTO

Viga Studios

Sujay HG

Cofounder and CTO, Viga Studios

I am the co-founder and CTO of Viga Studios. I am a graduate in Electronics and Communication engineering from BMS College of Engineering. I have been working on developing some really interesting applications in the space of AR/VR/MR and computer graphics. I am someone who is interested in using my engineering knowledge in the space of media technologies.I was part of organizing teams of tech fests in college and hostel. I was a part of the organizing team of Singularity University's Global Impact Challenge India 2017, which intended to find entrepreneurs in India who can impact the lives of a billion people using exponential technologies in the span of 10 years. I was also a speaker in Unite India 2017, where I spoke about optimization methods that can be used in Unity for developing mobile walkthroughs.

Srinivasan Veeraraghavan

Co-founder

Roosh Interactive

Srinivasan Veeraraghavan

Co-founder, Roosh Interactive

Srini is Co-founder & Coding Overlord at Roosh Interactive. He has been working in the mobile games industry for 15+ years. Currently working on some awesome games at Roosh, some of the past mobile titles he has worked on includes Zombie Bloxx, Sniper Deathmatch, DodgeFall, Nitro Rush, Bioshock 3d for mobile, Bruce Lee Iron Fist, IPL Cricket and many more.

Girish Dhakephalkar

Founder & CEO

Shoonya Game Technologies

Girish Dhakephalkar

Founder & CEO, Shoonya Game Technologies

Girish Dhakephalkar is the Founder and CEO of Shoonya (www.ShoonyaVR.com), a Pune based company specializing in delivering Effective Business Solutions using Immersive Technologies. He has a Master's degree in Computer Games Technology from the University of Abertay, Scotland. As a game developer, he's worked on the MMOG All Points Bulletin (APB), at Real Time Worlds in Scotland which was founded by Dave Jones, the creator of GTA.

Girish founded Shoonya in 2009 with the aim of bringing Immersive Experiences to applications beyond Entertainment and Video Games. Over the past 9 years, Shoonya has catered to clients from a variety of industries including Aviation, Transportation, Real Estate, Automobile, Energy, Telecom and Cosmetics, with a client base spread across India, Italy, UK, Germany, Middle East and Singapore.

Joshua Fernandes

Lead Developer

Threye Interactive

Joshua Fernandes

Lead Developer, Threye Interactive

A Mechatronics Engineer by education, after initially following his love for ‘making’ with a focus on geeky tech toys (Arduino, Kinect etc) he found a complementing overlap in process and motivation in the games industry and hasn't looked back.

Joshua Fernandes is the Lead developer at Threye Interactive and has been a part of the industry for the past 5 years, he has worked on the Official Indian Air Force mobile game ‘Guardians of The Skies’ and cute hardcore platformer ‘Switch - Or Die Trying’; which won runner up ‘Studio Game Of The Year’ at NGDC 2017; for PC and Xbox One.

On the non-gaming front, he has worked on projects that include 3D mapping terrains by flying drones over them to machine learning based cricket training and has even given a TEDx talk on Human Computer Interactions.

Dejaraj Shridhar

Development Director

JumpStart Games

Dejaraj Shridhar

Development Director, JumpStart Games

15+ years of experience. Managing the game dev team in JumpStart Games Bangalore.

Supratim Ray

Tech Lead

JumpStart Games

Supratim Ray

Tech Lead, JumpStart Games

15+ years of professional experience.. Tech Lead of School of Dragons.

Umesh Ramchandani

Developer

Parallax Labs

Umesh Ramchandani

Developer, Parallax Labs

Like every other teenage tech geek, I started my journey by playing high graphic intensive games. This passion of mine led me to start develop these on my own. I made Unity and Unreal my forte which helped me enter into the XR space. I found some like minded people with whom I could find solace with my team in Parallax Labs.

Vivek Surve

Co-Founder

Parallax Labs LLP

Vivek Surve

Co-Founder, Parallax Labs LLP

A mechanical engineer from Pune with a penchant to develop and visualise alternate realities. I've always been passionate about developing seamless immersive experiences using the five senses available to the human being. This quest of mine brought me to start the XR based content studio - Parallax with two other like-minded individuals. Here I proudly re-envision the future with a group of dedicated engineers and designers committed to provide the immersive solutions to businesses and people alike.

Peter O'Reilly

Head- Asset Store

Unity Technologies

Peter O'Reilly

Head- Asset Store, Unity Technologies

Employed at Unity since July 2017 as the Head of Asset Store. Prior to Unity Peter spent 15 years at EA where he launched Origin Access, EA Access, headed up the Origin service internationally and lead marketing for a number of EA's major franchises.

Ashley Alicea

Evangelist

Unity Technologies

Ashley Alicea

Evangelist, Unity Technologies

After seven years as an independent developer and organizer of events for fellow game creators, Ashley Alicea joined Unity as their Evangelism Coordinator for the Americas. She now spends her days organizing workshops, roadshows, and conferences that support game developers across the western hemisphere. Her past roles at Global Game Jam, IndieCade, and Games For Change have made her a passionate advocate of democratizing game development - a mission she proudly continues at Unity.

Jonas Bötel

Lead Programmer

Unknown Worlds Entertainment

Jonas Bötel

Lead Programmer, Unknown Worlds Entertainment

Jonas is the lead programmer on Subnautica, an underwater adventure game developed by Unknown Worlds Entertainment. He has a master's degree in Computer Science and has been tinkering with game programming since the early 1990s.

Rajan Sitapara

National Institute of Design

Rajan Sitapara

National Institute of Design

A Polymath, Tech Wanderer. I have done my B.Tech in Mechatronics and pursuing Masters in New Media Design at National Institute of Design. Having experience in Nuclear Industry Robotics and Defence Tech Design. I also go to teach kids at a village near to Ahmedabad on Sundays.

Rachel Pohl

Education Partnership Manager

Unity Technologies

Rachel Pohl

Education Partnership Manager, Unity Technologies

Tim McDonough

General Manager of Automotive

Unity Technologies

Tim McDonough

General Manager of Automotive, Unity Technologies

Tim McDonough leads the automotive business at Unity. He is accelerating the automotivebusiness unit to serve automotive customers and continue to transform Unity into the world'slargest real-time 3D engine. He built the vision, strategy, business plan and team and drivessales with Fortune 100 companies for automotive. He is a marketing executive with 25 years ofexperience creating and managing billion-dollar brands for Fortune 500 companies and has aproven track record driving growth at leaders across industries, such as Qualcomm insemiconductors, Microsoft in computer software, hardware and services, Sprint intelecommunications, and Saatchi & Saatchi in consumer advertising.

Ron Martin

Evangelist BizDev - Film

Unity Technologies

Ron Martin

Evangelist BizDev - Film, Unity Technologies

Manivannan Muniyandi

Professor

IIT Madras

Manivannan Muniyandi

Professor, IIT Madras

Dr.M.Manivannan is a professor of Biomedical Engineering in IIT Madras, Department of Applied Mechanics. He received post-doctoral training at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in Cambridge. He was a visiting scientist at the Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) of Harvard Medical School (HMS) in Boston, and a visiting faculty in the Christian Medical College (CMC) Vellore. Before MIT and Harvard, he received another post-doctoral training at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) Maryland. Before joining IIT Madras in Jun 2005, he was serving as a chief software architect of Yantric Inc., a spin-off company of MIT Touchlab, in Cambridge MA. In 2005 Dr.Manivannan has setup the first Touchlab in India at IIT Madras, which is also known as Haptics Lab.

Calvin Park

Business Development Manager

Metadium

Calvin Park

Business Development Manager, Metadium

Abhi Mitra

Unity Trainer

Centurion University

Abhi Mitra

Unity Trainer, Centurion University

Abhi Mitra is B. Tech in Computer Science & Engineering from Centurion University, Bhubaneswar and currently pursuing M. Tech by Research degree from Centurion University, Paralakhemundi. He chooses his career as a Game Developer and has strong interest in Animation, XR and Game AI. He is a Unity Certified Developer from 29th Jan 18. Currently, he is working as a Unity Trainer and developing VR UX Applications for farming training for Centurion University. He is also a Team Leader of Unity AR/VR Developer Team of GramTarang Technologies Private Limited.

Rabindra Sah

Professor

Centurion University

Rabindra Sah

Professor, Centurion University

Rabindra Sah is B.Tech in Mechanical Engineering from NIT- Patna. He is having 26 years of enrich industry experience in Digital Product Development in working on Product design, validation, New Product Introduction, Project, and Manufacturing Process & Facility Planning. He has primarily worked for Automotive along with Aerospace-Engine, Process (Steel, Port, FMCG) & Heavy Machinery industries. He has worked for customers in India - Asia Pacific, North America, Europe. Currently he is working as Managing Director – Gram Tarang Technologies Private Limited (GTTPL) and Professor at Centurion University. At Centurion University, he is working and focusing in developing competency on domain and digital technologies with students and faculties to make them employability to the students what industry needs. At GTTPL, he is working to develop innovative products in engineering domain which customers requires with disruptive digital technology & AR/VR in Agriculture, Transportation & mobility, Aerospace, Smart City, Gaming, Media & Entertainment, LMS, Ship Building, Manufacturing. He is a leader of strong commitment, delivery, and work with enjoy & enthusiasm with strong sporting back ground which is his source of energy.

Saiteja Alampally

ARCore Developer,Google CrowdSource community lead

Google Developers

Saiteja Alampally

ARCore Developer,Google CrowdSource community lead, Google Developers

Saiteja Alampally is an AR core Developer and MLCC Facilitator for hyderabad .He hasbeen effectively contributing to Prominent Open source Projects and he has beenleading and coordinating tech communities like Computer Society of India, MozillaIndia,Google Crowdsource,Bonfire VR and IBC.He served as Vice president for StreetCause Ngo. Saiteja has participated in Global hackathons and Technical Summits.Hewas featured in Top 20 finalists at “GAINS Artificial Intelligence Summit “at MicrosoftIndia Development center and finalist in “MEDTECH Hackathon 2018”by Novartis,CIE.His projects were featured in facebook India Innovation Challenge at T-HUB ,UKInnovation Challenge and was in final 50 teams at “INTERNATIONAL BLOCKCHAINHACKATHON(ibc)”He was invited to google Internationalization and googleCrowdsource Global Meets and Guest lectures were given by him at “OakridgeInternational school” ,”Annapurna international institute of film making”.

Nuno Monteiro

Aptiode

Nuno Monteiro

Aptiode

Nuno Monteiro is a gaming enthusiast that loves to make games. He has over 10 years experience developing games such as 8 Ball Pool, Soccer Stars, Gravity Guy 1 & 2, Hambo, iStunt 1 & 2, Endless Ducker and PuzzlAR at Miniclip, RTSolutions and Bica Studios. He is now leading the Unity technical team at AppCoins and making easy for developers to integrate with AppCoins blockchain protocol in their games.

Ravikiran Katta

Developer

CUSMAT Technologies

Ravikiran Katta

Developer, CUSMAT Technologies

Developer at CUSMATLove gamesLove making gamesHave been doing it since last 3 years

Pablo Farias

Certified Unity Instructor & Founder

Zenva

Pablo Farias

Certified Unity Instructor & Founder, Zenva

Certified Unity Instructor and Founder ofZenva - the world's leading platform to learn game development and programming,. Which features a community of over 350,000 learners and a curriculum of Unity Authorized content.

Pablo is also a member of theIntel Software Innovator programin the Asia Pacific Region, and the Oculus Start developer program.

Venugopal Subbarao

Associate Vice President

Infosys

Venugopal Subbarao

Associate Vice President, Infosys

Venu is an Associate vice president at Infosys and currently heading Digital Engagement Incubation Practice at Infosys Centre for Emerging Technologies Solutions.

He is specialized in Information Management, Big Data Analytics, AI/ML and Augmented/Virtual Reality capabilities and converged focused on incubating digital offerings based on IoT, AR/VR and AI/ML.Venu has worked on multiple incubation at Infosys and developed various software offerings, which includes one of current AI Offerings at Infosys, Infosys Nia Chatbot - Conversational User Interface Platform.As a part of incubation journey, Venu has filed around 10 patents (at different stages of patent processing) and has 3 patents granted. He has written book chapters in Infosys Journals and Published papers in research and technology conferences.Venu is a Certified Technology Officer through Executive Education Certification Program from Queensland University of Technology and Stanford Ignite certificated